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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (418254)10/7/2011 2:35:49 PM
From: S. maltophilia  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
21 When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—a hundred and eighty thousand able young men—to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.

Hard to pay for that kind of stuff when bonds and the Fed hadn't been invented yet without some serious taxes.